LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963). The Silver Chair, London, 1950, 8vo, frontispiece and illustrations...

LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963). The Silver Chair, London, 1950, 8vo, frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, original cloth, green dust-jacket (torn without significant loss). THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FOURTH "NARNIA" NOVEL. RARE. LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963).  The Silver Chair . London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953. 8vo (198 x 135mm). Half title, monochrome frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Original dark blue cloth, the spine lettered in silk, map endpapers (front free endpaper with lightly browned strip, as usual), green dust-jacket with an oval illustration on the upper wrapper by Pauline Baynes and a smaller illustration on the backstrip with the price of 10s.6d. unclipped and with the rear turn-in blank except for the tiny printed code "APT/A529" at the foot (a few tears without significant loss including one across the backstrip, adhesive tape repairs to the verso of the wrapper with their browning slightly showing through to the front). THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FOURTH OF THE SEVEN "CHRONICLES OF NARNIA" NOVELS. Internally, the book is in remarkably clean and fresh condition, as is the cloth binding. RARE.